Good sir...next time Mrs. Grumpy reads the blog, I will pray for your safety. I agree, hilarious. And, really ridiculous. Alas, us menfolk can laugh, while the ladies always have to prove themselves to society.

Its not such a bad comment (on the 1955 instruction). Everyone should know their job expectations-requirements (their place).The husband in 1955 assumed to be employed, had to take CRAP from the boss to keep his job. Just like today.If the husband was making money, taking out the garbage etc. He knew his place and fulfilled his role in the family. That phrase works for both husband and wife.Get pissed off at Capitalism if you don't know/like your place.

They drank a lot back in the '50s. My MIL gave me the straight poop when I asked her how she handled life back then. (In the mid 1950's my FIL was military, she was home alone with my SIL in El Paso, TX away from friends and family) She smiled and said that when her husband came home, he made her a Manhattan. Cocktail hour was a nightly ritual for them.

The part I really don't like in this essay is the Orwellian overtones. The husband takes the role of Big Brother and will notice a fleck of dust or dirty little finger and actually CARE about it enough to lower his opinion of his wife because of it. The wife is stressed out over all these fanthom job requirements and the husband is stressed out over having to be this Larger-than-Life persona that really pushes him away from being emotionally attached to anyone in his household. I can't imagine anyone actually being happy......

Quite honestly, there are quite a few things on this list I really aspire to. You know what? It really helps! I think that, all joking aside, if more wives were like this, more marriages would be happier. Secretly, there are many men who would love just half of this stuff from their wives on even a weekly basis.True, huh, most of you husbands out there?

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